The tongue is a heart gauge*

Pastor spoke on James chapter three. I thought it pertained well to my error of words a few blogs ago. The tongue is a gauge of what is in our hearts. It is a good thing to look at the heart when your tongue troubles you. There are several things I noted, one teachers have a greater responsibility for what they say. As verse 1 says "...we shall receive the greater condemnation." I believe this applies to me because I do talk about the scriptures a lot in my blog. In a way, I am a teacher. I need to be careful with my words. What is in our hearts will come out of our mouth. In verse 9 it talks about from the same mouth we bless God and curse men. This should not be. If our heart is full of God's love, that is what should be coming out of our mouth, off of our tongue. Verse 11 says "Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?" Our tongue is a difficult thing to control but it starts in the heart. I once read or heard that it takes 20 positives to counteract 1 negative. Negatives are powerful. I feel it is so easy for me to become negative. I have seen it over and over again, what is in our hearts comes out of our mouth. "Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me," say Psalms 51:10.  Fill my heart with good things that what comes out of my mouth will encourage, lift up, bless others. The tongue really is a gauge of our heart. What comes out of our mouth comes from what is in our hearts. May I be a blessing. May I be an encourager. May I uplift someone. Let that be what fills my heart. God bless, LVZ.